Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 21, 2021

Do they now? I’m not that kind of plugger; haven’t gotten a physical newspaper in — as far as I know — two decades.

Good to start the grill.

Had to switch my subscription to an online newspaper because I’m retired and on a fixed income.

I do.

Wouldn’t Pluggers subscribe to multiple papers for multiple points of view on the same subject?

This is pretty blatant.

Um, no. We have two newspapers in a town of 44,000 residents. The papers are clones of each other.

Not me anymore!!! Our local paper has turned into a liberal rag.

And collect their newspapers for recycling. Remember though, collecting for recycling is not actually recycling. They’re just waiting around to actually recycle all of them.

Sure Do ! Love the puzzles .

I did until the carrier’s strike a few years ago. After three weeks without a paper I started getting my news online, and never went back.

‘Nowadays’, ‘Pluggers’ can’t even afford to buy a newspaper at the newsstand’(some are over $3 day) ! ! !

Not all of us…

I’m a loyal reader, but the paper keeps getting smaller and the price has more than tripled in the past 20 years. And now I have to read my favorite comics online! Like this one was in my paper a few months ago, but no more.

This plugger ditched the so called paper when it went to 3 days a week, changed to a “newszine” format at double the price, decreased the Sunday content and doubled its price as well. And they wonder why “newspapers” are dying?

I haven’t subscribed to a newspaper since the Wall Street Journal took a hard Right turn a few decades back.

online papers are much more current and don’t waste trees!

Quite a quandary — we all want newspapers to be what they [supposedly] used to be and yet, if they were, we wouldn’t be able to sound off in comment sections like this!

Not at $1200/yr – the cost of our local paper (WPB, FL)

Stopped subscribing to the local newspaper years ago; got too expensive while most of the news and events were a day late.

My owner puts his newspaper unread in the cat box; says cheaper than litter

When Gannett bought the local daily paper, and began turning into a USA Today clone, I quit subscribing. If I’m out and about, I may pick up a Sunday edition. It’s not missed if I don’t, since it’s barely a news paper anymore.

I kinda gave up on newspapers when the headlines became LOCAL SCHOOL WINS V-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP and bottom corner of p,24 was world war iii imminent.

McClatchy turned our local paper into an ad rag,

Not anymore. Too many ads and on the front page – too. Cut out too many comics and added more ads. Plus vacations holds – sometimes did not work, advertising that you were gone.

Some pluggers (like me) used to work for newspapers.

I stopped subscribing to newspapers 30 years ago when I realized that I was picking them up off of the driveway and chucking them into the recycle bin without ever looking at them.

I loved reading the paper!

Until they can’t afford them on social security.

and the techy ones follow news on multiple online sources…..

Old habits are hard to break until the price goes up and meaningful content goes down. They need to change the name NEWSpaper to POLITICALslantpaper.

I just cancelled my subscription to the “local” paper after 40 years because the non-plugger delivery person doesn’t want to deliver it all the time and it is only twice a week and the management never follows up on complaints.

Nothing better than picking up the newspaper and reading it. So much better than reading articles on line. Wish they would run more comics like they used to. :(

I still subscribe to the “paper” newspaper, which at least once a week does not arrive at my house. They don’t even provide it the next day as they used to. I would stop it for good except that there are a few local articles that I wouldn’t know about without it. The online version is the worst piece of garbage I’ve ever seen online. Finding what I want is next to impossible. It puts any clickbait site to shame, and I wouldn’t pay a dime for it. It’s only slightly cheaper than the paper version, anyway

I subscribe to the regional newspaper. At my request the paper is put in the tube provided by them instead of being tossed on my driveway – and the tube is not at the street – it is about halfway up my driveway. I had called the publisher some decades ago and asked if his newspaper was garbage – as my mother had taught me never to pick up things lying on the ground as anything doing so is garbage.

I read the paper after dinner, even though it is am paper. However, since the pandemic I am not comfortable putting the paper on our kitchen table so I keep putting it on vacation and reading the online version – which I do not like doing at all and some parts of the paper are not in the online version. When it restarts from vacation I wait 2 days and put it on vacation for another month. (I don’t just stop it for now as I have a deal on the subscription price which I would lose if I did that and also because we need the newspaper for scrap matters.)

I do put out my old newspapers, magazines (and cans, bottles and jars) out for recycling. In normal times I do so weekly, right now as I have so few I put it out about once a month. I have bags of soda bottles from before the shutdown which are waiting to be returned to stores and their machines until we are comfortable going back in the redemption center at the supermarket or Walmart.